sant

Inherited from Old Catalan sant, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsant]
• Rhymes: -ant

sant m (plural sants, feminine santa, feminine plural santes)

1. saint (a person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly)
   • 1994, Les Festes dels sants. Material per a la celebració, Centre de Pasoral Litúrgica (publ.), page 8

     Honorar els sants és, per tant, honorar Crist.

     Honoring the saints is, therefore, honoring Christ.

sant (feminine santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santes)

1. holy; saintly

• “sant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin sānctus.

sant m (feminine sante)

1. holy, sacred

• santificâ
• santimonie

sant m (plural sants)

1. saint

• IPA^(key): /sãt/

From French centre (“centre”).

sant

1. centre

• Sant
• santral

From French senteur (“scent”).

sant

1. to scent

sant

1. scent

• sent

From Latin sānctus.

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sanc, feminine plural santes)

1. sacred

sant

1. (Northern) alternative form of seynt

sant

1. neuter singular of sann

sant

1. neuter singular of sann

From Old Occitan sant, from Latin sānctus.

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sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

1. holy; sacred

• *samt

From Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, whence also Old Saxon sand, Old Dutch sant, Old English sand, Old Norse sandr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

sant n

1. sand

• santstein

• Middle High German: sant; sampt, sambt
  • German: Sand
  • Luxembourgish: Sand
  • Vilamovian: zaond
  • Yiddish: זאַמד (zamd)

• san
• sanct

From Latin sānctus.

f=santa

sant m (oblique plural sants, nominative singular sants, nominative plural sant)

1. a saint

sant m (feminine singular santa, masculine plural sants, feminine plural santas)

1. sacred; holy

• Catalan: sant

• IPA^(key): /sant/

sant m (plural santos)

1. apocopic form of santo
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v:

     en ebrõ regno dd̃ .ij. ãnos. ebrõ a agora nõbre ſãt abraam.

     David ruled over Hebron for two years. Hebron now has the name Saint Abraham.

• Spanish: san

sant

1. alternative citation form of santa (“being”)

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sant”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

sant

1. indefinite neuter singular of sann

• stan

From Middle Welsh sant, from Proto-Brythonic *sant, from Vulgar Latin santus, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /sant/
• Rhymes: -ant

sant m (plural saint or seintiau, feminine santes, not mutable)

1. male saint

• The plural form saint is now only used to refer to living people.
• When used as a title, sant comes before the name of a male saint, e.g. Sant Luc (“Saint Luke”), but can come after the names of certain Celtic saints, e.g. Dewi Sant (“Saint David”). For the titles of female saints, santes is used, often preceded by the definite article y, e.g. y Santes Fair (“Saint Mary”). The variants san and sain are also found occasionally, often in place names, e.g. Llansanffraid, Sain Ffagan (“St Fagans”).

• nawddsant
• santaidd
• santdod

• sain (“saint”)
• san (“saint”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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sant (definite form sant wi)

1. last name

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 5